From what Nintendo has announced, the Wii U will be as powerful as the 360.
...uh, no. one of the few things we do know is the general model of the vid card (Radeon 4850 and 4890 are more or less the same). this is a vid card made in 2009.
the 360 runs roughly an X1900, just heavily modified and optimized. a late 2005/early 2006 card.
the PS3 runs a 7800GT pretty much straight. a summer to fall 2005 card.
360's vid card is a better than the PS3's, but the Wii U's absolutely dwarfs both by miles to the point where if you can find ANY comparison to either of those cards it's a miracle because they're so goddamn old.
that stat, on its own, tells you that it's much more powerful. all they've said in interviews is that it can do everything the PS3 and 360 can, with no hints to how much better or anything because why on earth would they do that with over a year. you release your spec sheet a couple months later so that you don't have to deal with your competitors checking you out knowing 100% what's inside. there's also rumors of 'similar architecture' to the CPU, but nobody knows exactly what that means regarding cores, how good they are, or anything there. for all we know they basically told AMD to convert a hexacore into 3 and are doing that. most of the hardware we dont' know and there's no real way of knowing until they tell us. the vid card itself isnt' even that good of a value to use because after optimization it could very well work more like its sequel as the two weren't that far off either. the only thing that does however is establish a minimum benchmark. which is basically 'pretty damn good.'
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